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monthly project report - casetracker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barbara Goguen)
Fri May 11 16:27:40 2001
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:26:31 -0400
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From: Barbara Goguen <goguen@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tooltime-team@mit.edu
project name: casetracker 1.5
project leader: barbara goguen, oliver thomas
report date: May 11, 2001
submitted by: barbara goguen
url: http://web.mit.edu/tooltime/notebook/
accomplishments past period:
- conducted integration review on 4/9
- updated project notebook; take a look!
- recruited additional resources to the team in part to replace nick
howard, and in part to extend our ability to design, test and operate the
new services. new resources are barbara johnson, fred baars, and
potentially brian fisher.
- set up cvs repository space for casetracker development
- prototyped rudimentary proof of concept version of "view a case"
- set up categories for sarah shreeves from libraries to use casetracker
for tracking bugs in aleph; scheduled followup meeting with debra wiley
from fss.
- began learning about use cases to assist with our specifications work
goals for coming period:
- re-assess sponsorship of project with new IS organizational structure
- get fred baars up to speed on project in particular the operational and
administrative pieces currently handled by oliver.
- hold second brainstorming session working toward a specifications
document this time focusing on use cases on 5/17.
- meet with rocklyn during week of 5/14 to assess whether/when east could
take on some of the maintenance and operational aspects of casetracker
- carry out data warehouse download to refresh the lookup data; teach
process to fred baars
- determine how best to handle developer "how-to" documents being drafted
by steve; where to put them, how to fit them in with other documentation
plans
- determine process for tracking new users of casetracker, such as sarah
shreeves and debra wiley to ensure we followup on their requests in timely
manner and get earlier feedback on their pilot uses.
- move email and web enhancements from test into production
- do preliminary tracking of expenses to facilitate the creation of a
casetracker budget should the decision be made to do so.
- determine timing for upgrading production machine to oracle 8.1.7
issues:
- still struggling to keep this work moving forward while all members of
the team have other issues competing for their attention
key learning:
- it helps to keep track of all the tasks
team dynamics:
- all is well with existing members; need to introduce new members to the
effort.
